News: The taming of the queue: Measuring the impact of request queueing

Last month, webserver request queueing came under heightened scrutiny as rapgenius blasted Heroku for not using as much autotune as promised in their “intelligent load balancing”. If you somehow missed the write-up (or response), check it out for its great simulations of load balancing strategies on Heroku.
What if you’re not running on Heroku? Well, the same wisdom still applies – know your application’s load balancing and concurrency and measure its performance. Let’s explore how request queueing affects applications in the non-PaaS world and what you can do about it. To continue reading --> http://www.appneta.com/2013/02/21/the-taming-of-the-queue-measuring-the-impact-of-request-queueing/
Edited by: Cameron McKenzie on Apr 17, 2013 11:00 AM

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